Oh nice, thanks for that link, there's a particularly good section on statistics:

http://www.cancerguide.org/scurve_basic.html

Good read, as I prepare myself for a biopsy for a neck bump with relatively decent probability to be non-hodgkins lymphoma at age 26yrs old (thanks to a combination of smoking and taking certain strong medication to treat another illness that happens to cause cancer).

Note: traditional statistics examples rarely go beyond a 5-year estimate (as they claim, most clinical studies are capped at that).

I came across a good Tweet recently: "The best cure for cancer is to not get cancer". There are preventive means, so even if you don't have it, try to prevent it. Ignoring early prognosis (for ex: colonoscopies), smoking, poor environments, basic exercise, and unhealthy food is simply not worth it.